Jagat

I have been working on an article about Jiva Goswami for the Journal of Vaishnava Studies . Basically it is just a chapter from my thesis, which I published on line without footnotes ( Jiva Goswami: Biographical information and Jiva Goswami: An Overview of his writings ). One matter that I did not get into in that article was Jiva Goswami’s controverted relation to the Caitanya-caritāmṛta , which is described in Prema-vilāsa and Vilāsa-vivarta . This is primarily because I accepted the 1615 date for the CC; and since Jiva’s disappearance took place in 1608, the question of Jiva's throwing the CC into the Yamuna, being envious of KK, etc. (as found in VV), did not arise. Nevertheless, I confess that I had never gone through the Prema-vilāsa thoroughly, so I decided to revisit the question after procuring the reprint of Jashodalal Talukdar's complete 1913 edition of Prema-vilāsa , which came out in 1999. The complete version contains "24 1/2" chapters, but this...